Go Natural English Podcast | How To Speak Fluent English

  Episode transcript below:   Hey! How’s it going, Awesome Go Natural English Learner? In this episode, we’re going to learn the five freshest, hottest slang words for 2016. You know, vocabulary words come in and go out of use. If you’re speaking English like your textbook that was published in 1950, you probably don’t sounds like a native speaker. That’s why we have this episode and lots of other episodes from Go Natural English, as well as our courses and materials at gonaturalenglish.com. In fact, if you come to gonaturalenglish.com, I have a free training for you to get started on today. Just come to gonaturalenglish.com and you’ll see it right there. Okay! So, let’s get to the top five slang words for 2016. Number One is “extra”. Keep in mind, you probably already know the word “extra”, but this is a new use of the word as slang. That’s what slang is, right? It’s taking a word that we already have and using it another way. So “extra” means “trying too hard, or being over the top.” Okay? “Oh, that’s extra

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_3CNHlyFLo     Episode transcript below: Hello! How’s it going, Awesome Go Natural English Learner? How are you? Do you speak English as fluently as you would like to? If your answer is, “No!” then this episode is for you! Do you wonder what you’re doing wrong? Do you wonder why, after so much time and effort and money studying English in classes that don’t work, why you’re not fluent in English yet? If your answer is, “Yes!” then this episode is for you. At Go Natural English, we have a unique way of learning English and improving your fluency. So, I want to invite you to join our free training, “The 7 Steps to English Fluency”, which is a short video training at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps and I want to share that training with you for free. And you can find out about more courses and materials at gonaturalenglish.com that can help you with your English fluency. Now, there are three reasons why your English is not where you want it to be. Number one: If you are relying o

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEiDxfGpxeI   Episode transcript below:   Hey! How’s it going? I’m so excited to talk to you about reading today, because a lot of Go Natural English learners have asked me, “How can I read faster, better? How can I enjoy it more? How can reading help me learn English?” So, I’m really excited to share some things with you because reading is an amazing way to improve all of your English skills: your reading skills, obviously; your writing skills; your speaking skills; and even your listening skills. All your English skills will benefit from reading more, because reading will improve your vocabulary a lot, and reading will help you to understand the structure or the grammar of English. You’ll see the way that we put sentences together in different ways, and you’ll see how we organize our thoughts in paragraphs and across pages and in chapters. So, it will really help you. Not only will it help your English, but reading is really enjoyable. Well, it can be. Listen, I remember wh

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TR_yTBu54I   Episode transcript below: Hey! What’s going on? Did you know that learning English as a second language can actually keep you smarter and younger? You know, I believe in working out. I go to the gym, I work out! But did you know that learning a second language is like a workout for your brain? And that keeps you smart and it keeps you young over the years. So, learning English as a second language is, of course, really good for your professional life, your career. It’s great for your social life. It can help you make friends when you travel, or in your hometown with other English speakers. So, English is pretty awesome for a lot of reasons. But I wonder if you ever considered that it’s good for your brain. Science tells us that there’s several reasons why learning a second language, such as English as a second language, is really good for your brain. So, let me share those four reasons with you. Before I forget, I want to let you know that if you are an English

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkbd5Z_l9F0   Episode transcript below:   English is essential. It’s the number one second language in the world. There’s more non-native English-speakers than native speakers. And in any case, English is essential for your professional, for your personal life, and for growing as a person. If you want to do business, if you want to study or travel abroad, if want to connect with people, if you just want to know more about the world around you, English is the best tool to do that. Maybe you’ve been studying English for years, but you still struggle with shyness, with hesitation. You struggle to speak. If you’re struggling to speak, it’s unfortunately probably because traditional English classes haven’t really caught up with the modern English-speaking world. We lack practice in the classroom speaking with native speakers and other fluent English speakers. The same thing happened to me when I was learning Spanish. I was taking university Spanish classes and I learned a little

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0STkeiQRg   Episode transcript below: Hey, awesome Go Natural English Learner! What’s up? How are you doing? I get a question several times… I’ve gotten this question so many times: should I learn English with a native speaker or is it okay to learn with a non-native speaker? So, there’s a lot of pros and cons. And I realize that, depending on where you live, depending on your budget, depending on a lot of things, you might be looking at a native versus a non-native English speaking teacher. So I want to share with you my viewpoint. You know I’m a native English speaker; I’m from the United States; I’m a trained teacher. And one of the main points here is: regardless of if your teacher is a native or non-native speaker, you have to realize the difference, first of all, between a teacher and a conversation partner. So this could be a-whole-nother episode. But a teacher is someone who is trained to teach you the English language. So this teacher knows how to explain if you ha

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmXF-Jspmig   Episode transcript below:   Hey there! What’s up? I’m really excited about today’s episode because I love to travel. We’re talking about world travel. Do you love to travel? Do you want to travel the world? Have you thought about how English can help take you around the world? You might have thought of this a little bit before. But in this episode, I’m going to share five reasons why I think English is the best tool to help you travel the world. First of all, English is the most widely spoken second language in the world. So I don’t mean that it’s the most spoken native language in the world. There’s actually, more non-native English speakers in the world than native speakers, which is super interesting to me, because that means that wherever you go, you’re going to be able to use English to connect with other people that could be from any country, really. They don’t have to be from an English-speaking country and you might find yourself speaking more English wi

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY7xaxRS8i8   Episode transcript below:   Hey guys! How’s it going? In today’s episode, I have an awesome tip for you to work on your English fluency, especially to help you with your listening. You know, English listening skills can be really challenging because English just doesn’t sound the way it looks. It looks one way and then it sounds completely different. It’s just totally crazy. But using subtitles when you’re watching your favorite movies, your favorite TV shows, or even your favorite songs, can help so much, and it’s a fun way to learn the English language. I’ve used this technique to help me to learn Spanish, Portuguese and other languages, because I love music and I love movies. Maybe you do too! So, turning those subtitles on when you’re watching something in English and using the English subtitles will help you in many ways. Here’s how: First of all, it activates two parts of your brain. So, not only are you listening and using your brain for your listening sk

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFdn7woLXI   Episode transcript below: Hey guys! How’s it going? I have gotten a lot of questions recently about how to find someone to practice English with you. So, in this episode, we’re going to answer that question. I’m going to help you to find the perfect English language exchange partner, someone who you can practice with any time you want and it’s free. So, I think you’re going to want to watch this one. Let me tell you, before I explain exactly how to find your perfect language exchange partner, that if you want to learn more about Go Natural English Method: the Seven Steps to Fluency, you can find a free course. You can sign up for it at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps. Okay, so back to the question about finding the perfect language exchange partner. I know there’s a lot of problems: like, okay, where do you find someone? So, if you live in an American city, or an English-speaking country, that’s awesome. But maybe a lot of you don’t. I know that the Go Natural Engli

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5s2jK2JfU   Episode transcript below: Hello, how are you doing? In this episode we're going to take a look at some interesting, surprising myths about learning English. The top ten myths in fact. I'm really excited to share them with you, I think you're going to like them. They might make you think about your English fluency in a new way. Let's challenge some of those thoughts that you have about English fluency. I've heard from a lot of learners that they say, "Oh you know I really need to learn in a Native speaking country. I can't learn English until I can move to the United States." Seriously? It's not true. If you're planning on moving to the United States for example, you should probably start learning English before you move there. You don't need to live or even to travel to a native speaking country to become fluent in English. There's so many resources, especially online with so many interesting websites, news sources, video clips that you can watch, movies that yo

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl9O14qWvxo   Episode transcript below: Hello! How are you doing? Today is Black Friday. In the United States, this is a crazy day. I have to tell you a little bit about it and how it can benefit you. I recently came back to the United States after travelling a lot this year. And so I was here for Thanksgiving yesterday, which was lovely. I got to spend it with my family. And today is Black Friday. What the heck is Black Friday? That’s what all my international friends are asking me, because it’s a really big deal in the United States and it’s beginning to go to other countries. I know England and in other countries too, I’m sure, they’re picking up the Black Friday sale. So, Black Friday is a huge shopping day in the United States. It’s probably the biggest shopping day, because a lot of stores will offer their products at a special low price. So, they’ll have a lot of promotions and people get really crazy about this, because also the stores open up at early hours. Some sto

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9jhpomtP4     Episode transcript below:   It’s so good to see you. I’m so happy to see you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Please, ask me anything that you’d like. Great. I have four questions for you. The first one is I’d like to know nowadays, what is your biggest challenge with English? Speaking. Speaking, okay. Just speaking in conversation or for business, or for using English with friends? Is there something specifically that you’re having a problem with or a challenge with? Not work, for wok, just I want to make what I mean clear. Yes. Express yourself. Yes. Okay, I understand. And I think the more phrases that you become familiar with and you can understand more phrases and then use more phrases to express yourself specifically. So that’s your biggest challenge: to express yourself, what you mean to say. Do you think about using examples? Because I think examples are very powerful to show what you mean. So, if I say, ‘Do many tourists come to Japan?’, would you

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHYK07EUzvs   Episode text below:   Hey, Go Natural English learner! How are you doing? I’m so happy you’re here today. We’re going to talk about classroom English versus real life English and how they’re not the same. Maybe you’ve thought about this before. Of course, classroom English is different from real life English, but how are they different and how could you actually be hurting your English fluency by learning in the classroom? It seems so counterintuitive: you want to study English, you sign up for English class, you go to your class every day, you learn from a good teacher, why are you still not fluent in English? These are the thought that you might be having in your own head. So, let’s talk about it a little bit. I taught English as a second language in a classroom for over ten years. That’s right, ten years. So, I know what it’s like. And I did my best to help my English learners to become fluent in English. But the fact is inside the classroom is not the real w

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhlW1ma6AmM   Episode Transcript Below: Hey! What’s up? Welcome to Go Natural English. In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about what to do when you don’t feel like studying English. I know your goal is to get fluent in English, that’s why you’re here. And I’m here to help you. But I also know that sometimes you can lose motivation. You might feel like you’re tired, you just might feel like you don’t have the time or maybe you have other things that you’d rather be doing besides studying English. So, in this episode, I’m going to give you some pointers, some suggestions that I think will  really help you to stay on track towards your goal for fluency in English. And before I forget, I want to invite you to sign up for the free ‘7 Steps to Fluency’ course at GoNaturalEnglish.com/7steps. And at the end of this episode, I’ll link to that page again. So, you don’t have to go right now, you can watch this episode and then meet me there after. So, we have a few different ways t

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBaEM3ngCc   Hey there! What’s up? Welcome to Go Natural English. I’m here with you today on my porch. It’s a beautiful evening. It’s a great time to talk about how you can improve your English fluency with the top 10 phrasal verbs. So, I’d like to share these with you. I’m not holding back any secrets. These are the top ten phrasal verbs that you need to know and examples of each. Now, first of all a phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition. And often in English, that preposition will change the meaning of the verb. So, for example, ‘get’ usually means ‘to receive something’. But, for example, if I say, ‘Get out,’ it means ‘Leave, exit.’ So, the meaning is different. I think you can see how a phrasal verb is different. And what’s really special and interesting about phrasal verbs is that native speakers use them all the time. We use them a lot more than a more formal version of the verb, like ‘leave’. I would tell my friend ‘Get out,’ I wouldn’t say ‘Leave.’ Well, that wou

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYM92pioYyQ   Episode transcript below:   Hey! How’s it going? ‘Why is it that I can understand some native English speakers and not others?’ This is a really common question that I’ve been getting over and over from you, members of the Go Natural English community. And I think it’s a really good question to discuss in this episode. Don’t you think so? So, why is it that you can understand some native English speakers, like me. I know that a lot of you while I’ve received many, many, many emails saying, ‘Oh my Gosh, this is so exciting! Gabby, I can understand every single word you’re saying.’ Or ‘Wow, I can’t believe I understand 70% of what you’re saying. This is amazing. I’ve never felt this way before. I feel so good when I listen to your English, Gabby. But why when I listen to other native English speakers, can’t I understand them?’ So, let’s talk about that. Today, we’re going to solve this problem, and I’m going to share resources, suggestions with you on how to fix t

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKkrdFAMU0     Episode transcript below: Hello! How are you doing? I’m so excited to talk to you about why you should become fluent in English. Maybe you’ve thought about why you want to become fluent in English language. Maybe you haven’t thought much about it. Maybe you’ve just been studying, because it’s something you are required to do or you think you should do, but maybe you haven’t thought much about it. Well, if you have or haven’t, either way, this episode of Go Natural English is going to present some ideas that are probably new, you probably haven’t thought about. And so, I’m going to share with you my reasons why I think English fluency is the best thing that you can do for yourself. So, I’ve made a lot of notes, so I’ll be looking over at them while I talk to you. So, a lot of people talk about why you should become fluent, and I think there’re some basic reasons that you probably already know. I’m going to say these, and you’re going to think, ‘Duh. Yeah, I kno

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jFv88ZK5Zs     Episode transcript below:   Hello! How’s it going? Welcome to the Ultimate Guide to Fluency in the English language. This is without a doubt the best place to learn how to become fluent in English and what not to do, things to avoid on your journey to fluency. I have an extensive, exhaustive list of what to do and what not to do to become fluent in English that I have to look down at my laptop to remember everything. So, let’s get started with the first and possibly most important tip right away. You need to become an independent and motivated English learner. Without proactive action on your part, you cannot become fluent. You cannot rely on other people to tell you what to do. You have to be motivated on your own as an independent learner to become fluent in English. So, this is about your mind set. Before you even touch a textbook or watch a lesson, you need to be motivated and independent to become fluent in English. Next, know your goals. What do you want

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5hdCi9cZK0   Episode transcript below:   Hey! How are you doing? In this episode of Go Natural English, I’m going to share a number one thing that you need for English fluency. The first thing that you need first and foremost is not a textbook. It’s not even a lesson. What you need to know is why you are learning English. I help you to understand what you need to say in English, how you should say it, how you can learn English, but what I can’t tell you is why you are learning English. That has to come from inside you. And I want to know what is your reason why you want English fluency. This is so important for you to think about and to know, because it will keep you motivated, it will keep you going when English becomes challenging. And let’s face it, English can be really challenging. So, we have to ask ourselves why do we want to be fluent in English. I receive thousands of e-mails from people asking me, ‘Gabby, how do I become fluent in English?’ And I’m happy to help yo

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJb5e27gRrw   Episode transcript below:   Hey! How are you doing? Today, I have a question for you, and you’re going to give me your answer. See, usually in these quick English tip videos that I’ve been making three times a week every week this year, I tell you some information. But this time, it’s different. This time, I want to ask you, the Go Natural English audience, a really important question. I want to know the best way to move forward with the Go Natural English YouTube channel, podcast and blogpost at gonaturalenglish.com. So, I want to ask you what is your biggest challenge in English? Please, take a minute right now and leave a comment on this video to tell me what is your biggest challenge in English. And moving forward the rest of this year, I’ll create my best English quick tip answers to help you and the Go Natural English community here online. So, I really appreciate your answer. I will read each and every one and do my best to respond, especially to the ones